My Quilting Frame Is FINISHED!

Hehehehe! It's official, I'm a real COWGIRL! :) Here is our new bull! Richard and the boys picked him up this afternoon. He is a beefalo, half beef and half buffalo. Anyway, they get him home and get him out of the trailer. Got him in the lot were we are going to keep him and the dogs got after him......long story short, he got loose! Jumped the logs and through the barbed wire and through the woods he went! Richard and Andrew chased him for a few miles on foot through the woods! Finally back here within sight so I went to help them then. Let's just say we fought all over this farm with this little bull. He only weighs about 350lbs but he is just EVIL! Got one lasso around his back foot and another around his neck. Pulled the truck and trailer up to where we had him, took forever to get him in the trailer. We all have rope burns and blisters everywhere. Cuts and scraps too, like I said he went through the woods and acres of blackberry vines, but he is finally put up for the night. Giggle, we just left him in the trailer for the night, put him some food and water in there and will deal with him tomorrow! :)

Richard finished my frame this morning! :) I am one happy girl! I still need to stain some of the wood but I will get that in a few days. I just love it! It is a very sturdy 12 ft frame! I can also use a larger machine than the one that I have but this will probably be the only one that I ever buy. My machine is a 13" Bailey. I really like is so far.

I attached my handles to the back because I wanted to learn how to use a pantograph. My other set of handles for the front should be delivered any day. Anyway, I loaded some fabric on to practice with. Had trouble the first thing! Took me about 2 hours to figure out what was wrong....a wonderful lady called me from the Bailey Yahoo Group and helped me. I knew it had to be something simple because I had just bought the machine and it sewed great until today. The problem was.....I HAD THE THREAD WRONG! There is another thing by the needle that the thread needed to go through and it DOES NOT show that part in the manual! So she told me that, I redid the thread and it works perfect!!!! I am so happy with my machine and frame! I plan on practicing a lot more then I will start on my 70+ tops!

Now I will leave you with another silly Donkey photo!

I think I am going on to bed, my backing is starting to hurt from being jerked around by that bull.

Kristie